Touchard v. Touchard
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, San Francisco County. The facts material to the points decided appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHeydenfeldt, J.
Murray, C. J., concurred.
In the opinion which I delivered in the case of Vanderslice & Clarkson v. Hanks, 3 Cal., 27, I held that in a case of grant of land by the Mexican Government, upon conditions subsequent, the want of performance of the conditions could be taken advantage of only by denouncement, a mode of forfeiture fixed and regulated by Mexican jurisprudence.
The counsel for plaintiffs has learnedly argued to apply the same doctrine to a grant from a Municipal Corporation. The distinction, however, between the two cases is so apparent as scarcely to require consideration.
It is by the…
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